The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 95
As soon as he had ridden to the top, he took the third golden apple from the lap of the Princess and then turned his horse about and rode down again, and vanished from their sight before anyone was able to say a word to him.
Who acts: knight, anyone, apples · What happens: ride, take, turn, ride down, vanish, be · To what, where: top, third golden apple, lap, horse, sight, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, anyone, apples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ridden | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ridden | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ridden | aux |
| 6 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 took | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ridden | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ridden | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apple | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 apple | amod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apple | amod |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 lap | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lap | det |
| 19 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lap | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 turned | advmod |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obj |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rode | cc |
| 30 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 rode | compound:prt |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 rode | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 vanished | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 vanished | cc |
| 35 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 sight | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 sight | nmod:poss |
| 38 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vanished | obl |
| 39 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 42 able | mark |
| 40 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 able | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 able | cop |
| 42 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 vanished | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 say | mark |
| 44 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 able | xcomp |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 word | det |
| 46 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 say | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 say | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | knight | the top | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to top=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | past | knight | the third golden apple | the lap of the Princess | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from lap=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | turn | past | knight not said here | knight's horse | then | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result | ||
| 4 | ride down | past | knight not said here | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past | knight not said here | apples's sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | anyone | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | a word | knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 8 | sight | apples = apple | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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